FREEMASONRY in CHESHIRE * Tlie History of the Provincial Grand
CONTENTS. PAG E is by evidence than which it will be difficult to discover much LEA D ER— that relates to an earlier period. Freemasonry in Cheshire ... ... ... •¦• ••• 5*17 We have seen that Col. F. Columbine was Provincial Grand A New Departure ... ... ... — _• •• — 54$ Boar d of Benevolence ... ... ... ••• ••• ••• 54| Master in 1725, and in Chapter I. will be found a letter addressed Impo rtant Masonic Gathering at Wigan ... ... ... •¦• 54a The Craft Abroad ... ... ... - ••• - 549 to the Grand Master of England, dated from the " Castle and The November Magazines ... ... ... ••• ••• 549 Falcon " Lod in Chester April Craft Masonry ... ... — — — ••• 549 ge , 15th , I727, and signed by H. M ASONIC N OTHS — Warburton as P.G.M., his Deputy (Samuel Smith, who was also The Sch ool Elections ... ... ••¦ ... ••• 553 Col. Columbine's Deputy) ,' and his Wardens (Roger Comber- Conserration of the Mai den Lod ge, No. 2875 ... ... ... 553 The Late Bro. Horatio Ward ... ... ... ... 553 bach and John Coleclough). How long Warburton remained in Reviews ... ... ... ... ... • •• ••• 554 office cannot, in the absence of any definite statement, be shown ; Craft Masonry ... ... ... ... ... ••• 554 Instruc tion ... ... ... ... ... •¦• •*• 555 but in 1742 Captain Robert Newton was P.G.M., and he was Royal Arch ... ... ... ... ... ... - 55*3 re-elected on St. John 's Day in winter in the following Science, Art , and the Drama ... ... ... ... ••• 557 year. Masonic and General Tidings ... ... ... ... ••• 55s Under Bro. Newton 's ausp ices Freemasonry does not appear to have greatly prospered. There were lodges at Congleton and Macclesfield but they FREEMASONRY IN CHESHIRE * , do not seem to have sent representatives to the Provincial Grand Lodge at Chester. The old " Castle and or at least of so Tlie history of the Provincial Grand Lodge, Falcon had been erased in 1739 and the " Spread Eagle " Lodge, much of it as is supported by minutes that are still extant , fills though still on the register, was, as Bro.
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